Purpose The recent backdoor discovered in xz is pretty interesting. I wanted to have this post here not to re-explain what is going on with the attack, but rather to catalog the history of how it ...

With the demise of Authy’s desktop app, I’ve spent the last few days trying to rebuild it. I have the codes I need, and can totally do this with a command line utility. But what I want is the app...

These last few months started strong but ended up slowing down code-wise. I renamed dStore to svarm and got lots done with it. When I last left it, I was working on the data replication logic. I ha...

I’ve been working on dStore for months. dStore is a rewrite of an enterprise-grade, multi-tenant distributed no-sql data store; It’s my personal DynamoDB. Anyways, there are 3 main parts I want t...

I’m writing DynamoDB. Well, re-writing it. Not that I wrote it the first time. But I’m creating a ‘weak reference’ clone based on the original. The idea is you could have the benefits of a multi-t...

Yeah, so… I deleted my twitter account. I know, no one really cares. If you want to follow me now, go to my Mastodon account. But this post isn’t really about that. I created my Twitter account ...

I decided to make my internal libGDX library available on github. There is nothing proprietary about it and it could be useful to others. I used it for a few games on Android back when I had my Cod...

The tooling available internally at Amazon was great, but after spending close to five years there, I realized I’m not well versed in tooling for modern Java projects as much. Working on terrapin h...

I’ve made a bunch of progress on Terrapin but I still have a ways to go. Terrapin is a third-party data management service. Specifically, it manages access and availability to data about any 3rd p...

Last weekend I switched to roasting a new Ethiopia Yirga Cheffe called Kebele Gotiti. I’m using my Behmor 2000AB which has been working well for the last few months. I get city+ or full city roasts...